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LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada (preposterousuniverse.com)
submitted 7 hours ago by nymnympseudonym@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Do LLMs "think" in a similar way to humans? Or is it totally different?

Maybe it's a good idea to listen to someone who publishes papers on this very subject, and is a professor of both philosophy and psychiatry and directs an Institute for Cognitive Science. That person is Dr. Chandra Sripada and his insights are fascinating.

Sean Carroll (interviewer, scientist and science communicator) says this interview made him lean towards the answer being "yes, they think like humans" whereas previously he favored the opposite view.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago

Would you believe, the evidence is rather more compelling than that. Similarities in non-obvious failure modes, for example.